Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-06-17
FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE. II. 1888

a. s. MORTON.
FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE. II. 1887
a PLAN TEENING WITH LIFE.
At the Chamber of Commerce last Tues
day night, an enterprise. the suggestion
of Mr.. e. E. Haines, and one which if car
ried out will be of incalculable benefit to
Staunton, the other towns of the county.
and the county itself, was discussed. The
project is to have an imposing Trades Dis
play at the District Fair to be held here
in October; to advertise it abroad thor
oughly, and to attract here large gather
ing of people to witness the possibilities of
Staunton and Augusta county. 1t is GER
tainly time that the capital city of the
Shenandoah Valley, should have some ex-
hibition of the sort, for it is one hundred
and twenty-six years old this coming No
vember, and has never yet made even an
effort to show to the outside world what
1t and its back country can do. And yet
there is not a buster or more Industrious
little city in Virginia. nor one whose pop
ulation is less ashamed of work and more
willing to do it. Nor is there one that has
more vim and fire in the line Of public
and organized effort-as the events of last
week fully prove. There is really nothing
Stanton can't do if it turns hand and
art at the same time to it.
Staunton, Waynesboro, Middlebrook,
Raphine, (which is in fact an Augusta
village and one of which she is proudl
Fishersville, can furnish to Trades Dis
dlay wagons, carriages, buggies, shoes,
flour, furniture, agricultural machinery,
horse ag goods, cloth, fertilizers,
e. .,afe, paints, dyes. books, wine, dis
titled liquors, clothing, marble work, straw
and shuck goods, house building material.
terra Gotta work, foundry work, creamery
products, woven fencing drugs. bricks,
stone work, cigars, and a list of other
things too long to go over, manu-
featured by their own people with their
own capital. In the county and outside OF
the villages there could be furnished to
Trades Display, more Percheron and
Clydesdale horses than all the counties in
the State combined; such display of Jer-
sey cattle as the combined South cannot
approach, and such a display Of iron,
marble, manganese and native woods, as
cannot be approached outside of South
western Virginia. The merchants of this
city, who number about one hundred and
fifty, could, by themselves, organize ano
put on floats whole Trade Display, and
came very near doing it with their hand.
some vans last Thursday.
% The idea is to break the crust of OBJ
security and uncover all these things to
the world and let it see what is here. The
Chamber of Commerce has appointed
committee Of enterprising and practical
smen to make report ola general plan
70. the Display, to its next meeting; but
pending the report we may say that it is
to have the general outline of other dis
nlays of a similar character made in
American cities. the Display 1usul9 Will
consist of a long line of floats platforms
on wheels-moving through the streets Oh
which are workmen engaged in the manu-.
facture of such specialties as can be made
under those conditions, and to that will be
added long line of the heavy draft Per-
cheron and Clydesdale horses, for which
Augusta is rapidly becoming famous. In
addition to this there is expected to be
competitive military drill. to which out
side military companies will be invited,
and also an assemblage of all the brass
bands of the Valley, some nineteen il
number. In brief, 1t is to be made al
attractive occasion, and we'll advertised in
order that many strangers may be attract
ed here and see something really worth
coming for when they get here.
It is an enterpri-Aa., which will depend
for j wholly upon the
cooperation of tnoryople Of Stanton and
and the smaller towns of Augusta; for
there will be no trouble in attracting the
outside world if we can say definitely thai
we have something here to show it when
it comes. That cooperation among its
people shown by Stanton in the celebra-
tion last week will make the path to sue
cess smooth as far as this locality is con-
cerned, and it but remains for our people
In the other towns to heartily cooperate
In order to insure general success. l.
would be we'll to remember that this dis
play will not only be entertaining to the
public, but will be directly profitable to
all who take advantage of it to display
their wares. We therefore urge upon ali
to commence sort of mental prepara-
tion for it by thinking up how they may
take advantage Of it, what manufactures
of their own, or other goods, they may have
that would make good impression On a
moving float, and let each one determine
that in handsome decora ton no other dis
play shall be more attractive to The public
eye than his. October may appear to be
far off, but time flies rapidly and many a
well projected public event has been spoil
I'D las. --eisir.fs tiu i4a n.ro +a Lan.ir nrnna.
lions for It.
The Richmond Dispatch" thinks no
man who had ANYTHING to do with elect
ing Hayes in 1877 can be nominated for
the Presidency by the Republican party,
but in behalf of the Electoral Commission
Itself it says:
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